> How do we get poor kids access to the same healthcare as a child (and prenatal)

Universal healthcare, like everywhere else in the world.

> and the same schooling prior to college

This one is tougher with wealth disparities, because the wealthy will always have more opportunities and programs available to them. Public funding for after school programs and camps.

> The first 17 years of everyone's life is apparently equal enough.

Democrats did a good thing with the child tax credit that lifted millions of kids out of poverty. They of course botched it, per usual, by placing a time limit on it, and now it's expired.

Universal healthcare sets a base standard which is fantastic but it in no way equalizes healthcare across the economic spectrum.

I'm frankly not concerned about the 0.1% that can afford to fly to another country for experimental treatments. The US is the primary place for this anyway, so if the US went universal healthcare route, that shrinks the pool even further.

>How do we get poor kids access to the same healthcare

Medicaid attempts to accomplish this. I'm not sure how well. Careful when you say "same," the solution might end up being equally bad for everybody.

>same schooling prior to college.

Stop funding by zip code, that's the cause of it. Fund by either voting district or entire state.

> Stop funding by zip code, that's the cause of it.

What is your basis for saying this?

Info I have come across suggests the opposite: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/is-the-conventional-wis...

I will recommend Thomas Sowell's writing on this topic, he has some very poignant (and somewhat depressing) points on AA and the wider black cultural landscape that surrounds it.